The directive comes after the Senate voted to confirm Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), to ...

As Ms. Strassel explains, the Education Department is a misnomer. It educates no one. Instead, it functions as a bureaucratic middleman that adds cost and complexity—as well as radical political ...

In a state with a checkered history with federal special education law, advocates say Texas students will see an erosion of ...

The Education Department is preparing to lay off a significant portion of its workforce, with cuts expected to take place ...

By Bryce Fiedler In the wake of President Trump’s executive order aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, many have noted the obvious benefits of closing — or at least shrinking — this ...

President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The order directs Education ...

The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a ...

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, ...

In a Friday letter to the U.S. Education Department, New York officials said they will not certify that the state is ...

Mitt Romney promised to make this happen in 2012. A decade later Betsy DeVos, former secretary of education under Mr Trump, said her department should not exist. And Mr Trump has said he hopes ...

One notable Michigander, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, supports the call to do away with the department. In an opinion piece published in February for The Free Press, a media ...

Congress created the Department of Education and only an ... In his first term, then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos asked Congress to significantly reduce the agency's budget.